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...Thomas Drechsler, another police union attorney at the press conference, said that the disorderly conduct charge filed against Gates is among the most difficult crimes to define in the profession. But he said that many lawyers would agree that there was sufficient evidence for an arrest in this situation, and noted that Crowley did not have the "luxury or ability" to consult law textbooks and precedent cases in making judgments at the scene. According to media reports, Crowley is knowledgeable about race issues himself, having taught a class on racial profiling at Lowell Police Academy for five years after being...
Like the end of the harvest, we come to the last of our month-long survey of recent comix by women cartoonists. Leela Corman's "Subway Series," Debbie Drechsler's "The Summer of Love," Lynda Barry's "One Hundred Demons," and Phoebe Gloeckner's "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" are all semi-autobiographical stories about a young woman's adolescence. We saved the most difficult for last...
...life?" Steve abruptly ends their time together, leaving Lily to wonder what she did wrong. She frets over it wishing she could go back and do it right, though we can see that Steve simply got embarrassed. These are great comix, because, told with few words, Drechsler reveals the character's confusion and awkwardness through the details of her drawing. Her character's body language and facial details are among the most expressive in this medium without being the least bit photo-realistic...
...Drechsler, in one the most recognizable and unique styles in the medium, combines obsessive attention to certain details but not others. She loathes negative space, filling every millimeter of every panel with shading or detail. Clothing always rolls and ripples around the wearer's body thanks to multiple layers of shading. And yet, strikingly, she sometimes pays no attention to such traditional techniques as foreshortening or horizon lines. More strangely, rather than the usual black and white she has chosen a bizarre color scheme that evokes mint chocolate chip ice cream. Like suburbia itself, this peculiar mix of the natural...
...Debbie Drechsler's artful and honest depiction of a girl's early teenage years make "Summer of Love" one of the outstanding books of the year. What a shame that it probably won't ever reach the audience that would appreciate it most. Young Adult fiction doesn't get better than this. Full of the frustration, confusion and mystery of growing up, it would make you nostalgic were it not so heartbreaking...